Stories
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
Catalogue
- Books
Terminal care / edited by Richard Turnbull.
Date: [1986], ©1986- Books
Terminal care for cancer patients : a survey of the facilities and services available for the terminal care of cancer patients in the Chicago area / [The Institute of Medicine of Chicago, The Central Institute for the Chronically Ill].
Date: 1950- Archives and manuscripts
Liverpool Personal Services Society. Includes ‘Terminal Care Project' article on the Society's scheme for providing support for people who are terminally ill
Date: c. Mar 1985Reference: SA/BAC/E/2/23Part of: BACUP (British Association of Cancer United Patients and their families and friends)- Archives and manuscripts
'Terminal care: evaluation of in-patient service at St Christopher's Hospice', Postgraduate Medical Journal
Date: 1979Reference: PP/BOW/J.5/21Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Books
Terminal care for people with AIDS / Ruth Sims, RGN, DNCert, Dip NAMH, General Manager and Director of Nursing, Veronica A. Moss, MBBS, DTM&H, DCH, DObst RCOG, Medical Director and Director of Planning, Mildmay Mission Hospital, London.
Sims, RuthDate: 1991